The Wire (season 2)

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The Wire
Season 2
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Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes12
Release
Original networkHBO
Original releaseJune 1 (2003-06-01) –
August 24, 2003 (2003-08-24)
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The second season of the television series The Wire of 12 episodes first aired in the United States on HBO in 2003 from June 1 to August 24. It introduces the stevedores of the Port of Baltimore and an international organized crime operation led by a figure known only as The Greek and continues the story with the drug-dealing Barksdale crew and the Baltimore Police Department who featured in season one. While continuing the series' central themes of dysfunctional institutions and the societal effects of the drug trade, the second season also explores the decline of the American working class, and the hardship its members endure during the transition from an industrial to post-industrial society.

It was released as a five-disc DVD boxed set in January 2005.

Summary[]

The second season continued to follow the police and those involved with the Barksdale drug-dealing organization. The returning cast included Dominic West as Officer Jimmy McNulty,[1] whose insubordinate tendencies and personal problems continued to overshadow his ability.[2] Lance Reddick reprised his role as Lieutenant Cedric Daniels, who was sidelined because of his placement of case over career, but used his political acumen to regain some status.[3][4] Sonja Sohn played Kima Greggs, who had transferred to a desk job, but could not resist the lure of a good case.[5][6] Deirdre Lovejoy continued as assistant state's attorney Rhonda Pearlman, the legal liaison between the detail and the courthouse.[7][8]

Wood Harris and Larry Gilliard, Jr. reprised their roles as newly incarcerated drug dealers Avon and D'Angelo Barksdale.[9][10][11][12] Idris Elba's character Stringer Bell took over the operations of the Barksdale Organization.[13][14] Andre Royo returned as Bubbles, who continued to indulge his drug addiction and act as an occasional informant.[15][16]

The police were overseen by two commanding officers who are concerned with politics and promoting their own careers: Colonel William Rawls (John Doman) and Acting Commissioner Ervin Burrell (Frankie Faison).[17][18][19][20] Wendell Pierce portrayed homicide detective Bunk Moreland, who became more involved with the core case.[21][22] Previously recurring guest star Clarke Peters joined the starring cast and his character, veteran detective Lester Freamon, joined the homicide unit as Moreland's new partner.[23][24]

The new season also introduced a further group of characters working in the Baltimore port area, including Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos (Paul Ben-Victor),[25] Beadie Russell (Amy Ryan),[26] and Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer).[27] Vondas was the underboss of a global smuggling operation,[28] Russell an inexperienced Port Authority officer and single mother thrown in at the deep end of a multiple homicide investigation,[29] and Sobotka a union leader who turned to crime in order to raise funds to save his union.[30]

Also joining the show in season two were recurring characters Nick Sobotka (Pablo Schreiber), Frank's nephew;[31][32] Ziggy Sobotka (James Ransone), Frank's troubled son;[33][34] and "The Greek" (Bill Raymond), Vondas' mysterious boss.[35][36]

Returning guest stars included: Jim True-Frost as Detective Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski;[37] Seth Gilliam as newly promoted Sergeant Ellis Carver;[38][39] Domenick Lombardozzi as errant Detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk;[40][41] J.D. Williams as Barksdale crew chief Bodie Broadus;[42][43] and Michael K. Williams as renowned stick-up man Omar Little.[44][45]

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Episodes[]

See also: List of The Wire episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
141"Ebb Tide"Ed BianchiStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		June 1, 2003 (2003-06-01)4.43[47]
"Ain't never gonna be what it was." – Little Big Roy
Members of the Barksdale detail are sidelined to various departments. Jimmy McNulty, now in the marine unit, discovers the corpse of a woman in the harbor. As payback for his removal from homicide, McNulty goes out of his way to prove that Baltimore City Homicide, the department headed by Colonel William Rawls, bears responsibility for the investigation. Major Stanislaus Valchek feels slighted when Frank Sobotka, the leader of a stevedore union at the local port, donates a more expensive gift to a neighborhood Polish church. Suspicious of the stevedore union's source of money, Valchek assigns a detail, led by Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, to investigate Frank Sobotka. Frank meets with other union leaders and learns that a crucial pier is still in a state of disrepair. It is revealed that many of the men in Sobotka's union are struggling to make ends meet as the mechanization of port infrastructure has reduced the need for stevedores. Frank instructs his nephew Nick Sobotka to meet with Spiros Vondas and his associate Sergei "Boris" Malatov both of whom work for The Greek, a clandestine black market broker who pays Frank to smuggle contraband in shipping containers. Later, Port Police Officer Beatrice "Beadie" Russell sees a broken customs seal on one of The Greek's containers. She discovers the bodies of thirteen young women inside, who appear to have died from suffocation.[46]
152"Collateral Damage"Ed BianchiStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		June 8, 2003 (2003-06-08)3.50[49]
"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out." – McNulty
The deaths of the thirteen women are presumed to be accidental and Russell is assigned to close the case on her own. Frank confronts The Greek's associates about not being informed of the container stowaways. Despite having no involvement with the case, McNulty checks out the shipping container and points out to Russell that the air pipe leading into the container was crushed by repeated blows from a blunt object, indicating that the women were killed on purpose. Upon reviewing their belongings and speaking with the medical examiner, McNulty concludes that the women were sex workers from Eastern Europe and that the corpse he found in the harbor was likely one of them. A crew member from the ship where the Jane Does shipping container originated is captured and tortured by The Greek's associates. He reveals that the crew accidentally killed one of the sex workers and threw her overboard; worried about the other sex workers as witnesses, they killed them too. Malatov then kills the crew member. McNulty again goes out of his way to prove that the murders fall under the jurisdiction of Rawls. The murders are dubbed the "Jane Doe" homicides and assigned to detectives Bunk Moreland and Lester Freamon (recently returned to homicide) along with Russell. They hold the ship to interview other crew members, most of them foreigners–all of them pretend not to speak English to avoid giving up information. Getting nowhere, the detectives are forced to let the ship leave. Valchek discovers that his Sobotka detail is highly ineffective. He strikes a deal with Acting Commissioner Burrell—in return for supporting Burrell in his political aspirations, Valchek demands that Burrell assign more competent officers to the detail.Valchek antagonizes the stevedore union members by ticketing their vehicles and setting up checkpoints near the local bar. Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa, another union member, retaliates by stealing Valchek's surveillance van and shipping it around the world. In prison, Avon Barksdale's relationship with his nephew D'Angelo Barksdale is strained. Bodie Broadus, now in charge of one of the towers, finds that a new shipment of drugs is missing.[48]
163"Hot Shots"Elodie KeeneStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		June 15, 2003 (2003-06-15)2.64[51]
"What they need is a union." – Russell
Nick Sobotka is concerned over how he is to provide for his girlfriend and their daughter with so few working days at the docks. He and his errant cousin Ziggy Sobotka procure stolen cameras and negotiate a sale with Glekas, another associate of The Greek. Impressed by his business savvy, Spiros asks Nick to smuggle containers with large quantities of chemicals but does not elaborate on their purpose, rousing Nick's suspicion. Stringer Bell confers with Avon about troubles with their drug supply and doubts about D'Angelo's loyalty, implying D'Angelo might offer up information on the Barksdale organization in exchange for a shorter prison sentence. Bell visits D'Angelo's girlfriend Donette at her home, telling her she needs to bring their infant son to visit D'Angelo in prison to improve his morale. Bell and Donette then have sex. Frank hires a well-known lobbyist to court political favor in hopes of reviving business at the docks. Omar Little returns to Baltimore. He and his boyfriend Dante join forces with two women to rob local drug dealers. At the request of Wee-Bay, Avon orchestrates a scheme to have an abusive prison officer arrested for the distribution of tainted drugs, killing five inmates in the process.[50]
174"Hard Cases"Elodie KeeneStory by : David Simon & Joy Lusco
Teleplay by : Joy Lusco		June 22, 2003 (2003-06-22)4.33[53]
"If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance." – Greggs
D'Angelo confronts Avon about his brutal methods for dealing with the prison officer and washes his hands of the family business. Avon brokers a deal to name the officer for a reduction in his sentence. Valchek specifically requests Lieutenant Cedric Daniels for the Sobotka investigation. Daniels, previously intending to quit the force and pursue a career as a lawyer, negotiates with Burrell and is promised his own major crimes unit if he can press charges against Sobotka. Daniels requests to have several members of the Barksdale detail back on his team; Rawls approves all of them but McNulty. Frank chastises Ziggy and Nick about their unauthorized smuggling deal with the Greeks. He defends his own illicit deals as a means of bringing in more business to the docks. Ziggy, against advice from Nick, flaunts his cash. McNulty enlists Bubbles to contact Omar at the behest of Moreland and takes a personal interest in tracking down the families of the Janes Does.[52]
185"Undertow"Steve ShillStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : Ed Burns		June 29, 2003 (2003-06-29)3.62[55]
"They used to make steel there, no?" – Spiros Vondas
Ziggy falls foul of Eastside dealers when he is unable to pay them for a drug package. The dealers take his Camaro as collateral and tell him he has until the end of the week to find the money before they kill him. Seeing that his cousin is in danger, Nick attempts to parley with the dealers and tells them they can sell the Camaro to pay off Ziggy's debts. They give Ziggy another week to pay but torch the Camaro. Attempts to extract information from union workers are unsuccessful, and the spooked union employees become more covert about their smuggling operations. The Sobotka detail tracks minor street dealers; Moreland, Freamon, and Russell move their operations to the detail's offsite office to share information. On the advice of Moreland, Russell reaches out to Maui, a union worker she once had a relationship with. After she asks him to be her informant, he reluctantly tells her the union computer may be useful in tracking containers. Frank's frustration with the smuggling business grows as he is once again denied a face-to-face meeting with The Greek, even as they offer to double his fee. Donette visits D'Angelo with their son and tells him that he is being supported; D'Angelo remains cynical. The Barksdale organization's drug trade continues to falter due to supply problems. McNulty visits an FBI facility in New Jersey where Eastern European sex workers are currently detained. He shows them photos of the Jane Does, but as he is unable to offer them any reward for cooperation, they say nothing.[54]
196"All Prologue"Steve ShillStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		July 6, 2003 (2003-07-06)4.11[57]
"It don't matter that some fool say he different..." – D'Angelo
In a ploy to convince Frank that the police have moved on, Russell drives around in her Port Authority gear and tells Frank she has been reassigned to a different dock. The detail begins to monitor container movements on a cloned computer. Greggs and Prez visit a strip club to speak to a friend of Shardene, who provides details on frequent sex trafficking of Eastern European women through the club. Later, Greggs and Prez follow the workers and their handlers back to an apartment building but are unable to gain access. Unknown to others in the Barksdale organization, Bell arranges to have D'Angelo murdered, but it is made to look like suicide by hanging. At the request of Nick, associates of The Greek intercede on Ziggy's behalf with the Eastside dealers, who retract their threat to kill Ziggy. It is revealed that The Greek does business with Proposition Joe, a drug supplier on the Baltimore Eastside and associate of Avon. As Frank outlines his plans for the docks, several of his union colleagues express suspicion at the source of his income. Spiros offers to pay Nick's smuggling fee in the form of wholesale heroin which Nick can turn over for a larger profit; Nick agrees to half cash and half heroin and successfully arranges a sale for the drugs. Omar testifies against Bird during Bird's trial for the murder of William Gant. Despite his casual attire and extreme candidness about his job as a "stickup man", he charms the members of the court, and Bird is charged with the maximum sentence. Maurice Levy, the Barksdale organization's lawyer defending Bird, is clearly rattled by the outcome.[56]
207"Backwash"Thomas J. WrightStory by : David Simon & Rafael Alvarez
Teleplay by : Rafael Alvarez		July 13, 2003 (2003-07-13)N/A
"Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock." – Horseface
McNulty courts his ex-wife Elena. The two go on a date and have sex, but the next morning Elena tells him to leave before their young sons wake up and see him. After reaching dead ends at every turn, McNulty gives up on identifying his harbor Jane Doe and sends for her cadaver to be donated for research. The detail closes in on the smuggling operations by wiretapping the phones of Frank and Malatov. Nick meets with a low-level Eastside dealer being surveilled by Thomas "Herc" Hauk and Ellis Carver. After tracking his license plate, Carver makes the connection between Nick and Frank Sobotka and recognizes a potential breakthrough in the case. Rawls attempts and fails to have Daniels take on the Jane Doe homicides. Daniels relents after Freamon suggests it's the moral thing to do. Nick gives Frank the numbers for containers to be smuggled; an initially reluctant Frank agrees to do the job for triple the usual fee, but warns Nick to "stay close". Freamon and Russell continue to study the movements of individual containers, suspecting that many irregularities occur when Horseface is assigned as a ship checker. These suspicions are confirmed when they observe a container being "deleted" from the system and bypassing a port checkpoint while Horseface is working the ship. They track this container back to The Greek's warehouse and later, on surveillance, see Proposition Joe meet there with Malatov. Avon is distraught by the apparent suicide of his nephew; Wee-Bey reassures him that it's not his fault. After D'Angelo's funeral, Bell is approached by Proposition Joe who offers Bell his superior drug product in exchange for a cut of the profits from Avon's territory in the projects, however, when Bell relays this offer to Avon, Avon turns him down flat.[58]
218"Duck and Cover"Dan AttiasStory by : David Simon & George Pelecanos
Teleplay by : George Pelecanos		July 27, 2003 (2003-07-27)3.64[60]
"How come they don't fly away?" – Ziggy
Spurned by his ex-wife and frustrated by his career setbacks, McNulty relapses into heavy drinking and severely damages his car. Moreland and Freamon make an appeal to Daniels to get McNulty assigned to the detail. Despite pushback from Rawls, Daniels succeeds in having McNulty reassigned. The Jane Doe homicides are officially integrated with the Sobotka detail, along with Moreland and Freamon. The detectives close in on the smuggling operations by wiretapping the phones of Frank and Malatov. Several incidents at the port rouse Frank's suspicion: he pays several overdue bills and is told that his cell phone was flagged as not to be disconnected for non-payment; he discovers that Russell, previously thought to be moved to a different port, is still working on the detail investigating the union. Becoming paranoid, he trades out a container with contraband for a clean container in case of police involvement. His suspicions are confirmed when the Port Authority pulls the truck over for a minor speeding charge, allowing it to be tracked by McNulty. The contents of the clean container are covertly dumped. Frank and Nick meet with The Greek, who tells them to continue swapping clean containers for contraband containers until police interest dies down. Taking initiative from Bell, Bodie and the tower crew take over new territory in an attempt to increase business.[59]
229"Stray Rounds"Tim Van PattenStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		August 3, 2003 (2003-08-03)3.04[62]
"The world is a smaller place now." – The Greek
The detail is dismayed by the sudden lack of activity around the smuggling operations and work overtime to catch up on the changing operations. Herc and Carver, relegated to 24/7 surveillance of The Greek's warehouse, resent their diminished role in the detail. In a change of tactics, McNulty goes undercover as a British businessman to sting the sex trafficking operation from the club visited by Greggs and Prez. This results in several breakthroughs for the detail: connecting The Greek to sex trafficking and drug supply, securing several more wiretaps, and getting the new phone number of a higher-up within The Greek's organization. McNulty investigates Glekas and inadvertently tips off a dirty FBI agent, who alerts The Greek of the investigation. The Greek repays the agent in kind by providing intel on an incoming Colombian drug shipment, resulting in a multi-million dollar seizure. Valchek is angered by the detail's change in focus from charging Frank Sobotka to tracking down higher-ups in the smuggling business. Embittered by Nick's success with wholesale drug sales, Ziggy acts increasingly erratic, throwing away Nick's proffered cash and plotting to sell several stolen Mercedes-Benz cars to Glekas. On his new territory, Bodie and his crew are targeted in a shootout with the previous dealers and a nine-year-old boy dies in the crossfire. This invokes the ire of both the Baltimore Police and Stringer Bell, exacerbated when Bodie's attempt to dump the shootout weapons in the harbor is foiled by a passing barge. Rawls greets Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin at the scene of the shooting; Colvin disapproves of Rawls' counter-strategy of large-scale strike operations through the Western District, saying it's all for nothing. Stringer Bell asks Brianna Barksdale to reason with Avon about Proposition Joe's offer. He meets again with Proposition Joe behind Avon's back, agreeing to turn over three towers in Avon's territory in exchange for Joe's higher-quality drug product, but Avon complicates the change of hands by hiring fearsome hitman Brother Mouzone to drive off rival dealers.[61]
2310"Storm Warnings"Rob BaileyStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : Ed Burns		August 10, 2003 (2003-08-10)3.51[64]
"It pays to go with the union card every time." – Ziggy
Ethnic tension over the next union secretary continues to build; Sobotka still plans to run contrary to a long-standing gentlemen's agreement. Ziggy steals four new cars from the docks and fences three to Glekas who double-crosses Ziggy by halving his original cut. Ziggy in a rage shoots a young Greek employee and kills Glekas. He remains outside the warehouse to turn himself in. Nick is the first to learn of his cousin's arrest and after facing the wrath of his uncle, drowns his sorrows in a local park. The detail uses satellite technology to its advantage but meets a setback as Valchek turns over control of the investigation to the FBI. Bodie is pleased with the new supply of drugs, but unhappy that Proposition Joe's nephew Cheese is on his turf. Cheese is wounded by Brother Mouzone, further complicating relations between Stringer and Proposition Joe.[63]
2411"Bad Dreams"Ernest DickersonStory by : David Simon & George Pelecanos
Teleplay by : George Pelecanos		August 17, 2003 (2003-08-17)3.70[66]
"I need to get clean." – Sobotka
Stringer manipulates Omar into pursuing Brother Mouzone. Omar shoots Mouzone and then leaves him alive having realized his mistake. The detail serves warrants on the targets of their investigation. A raid of Nick's home turns up large amounts of cash and heroin but Nick himself escapes arrest. Frank Sobotka is arrested when the FBI storms the union offices. Valchek ensures the press is there to see Sobotka embarrassed in a perp walk. Sobotka agrees to work with the investigation into the Greeks in exchange for leniency for Nick and Ziggy. In the wake of the arrests the Greeks decide to cut their losses and leave Baltimore. Vondas lures Sobotka into danger by offering him a meeting with The Greek and a promise to help Nick and Ziggy. The Greek receives warning of Sobotka's plan from a contact in the FBI.[65]
2512"Port in a Storm"Robert F. ColesberryStory by : David Simon & Ed Burns
Teleplay by : David Simon		August 24, 2003 (2003-08-24)4.48[68]
"Business. Always business." – The Greek
The stevedores gather for work as a floating corpse is pulled from the water. Once it is ashore, they all recognize the body as Frank Sobotka. The Greek opts to stop pursuing Nick because the police are on his heels, and walks away from Baltimore. The FBI visits the union hall and tells them that they need to change their leadership or face decertification. The union remains loyal and seals the destruction of their future. Urban reform begins to hit Baltimore as the docks undergo construction. Omar vows revenge against Stringer. Stringer cements his deal with Proposition Joe now that Mouzone is out of the way. Bubbles is arrested and alerts Greggs and McNulty to the relationship between Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell in exchange for his release.[67]

Reception[]

On Metacritic, the second season achieved an aggregate score of 95 out of 100, indicating universal acclaim.[69] On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has an approval rating of 95% with an average score of 8.8 out of 10 based on 21 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "An ambitious introduction to a new network of characters allows The Wire to expand its focus on societal ills."[70]

Awards and nominations[]

20th TCA Awards

  • Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Drama

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